Bent Handles

Unusual names collected by CUNY onomasticist Leonard R.N. Ashley for What’s in a Name? (1989) — these are “guaranteed to be real names of real people”:

Memory D. Orange

Fice Mork

Lovely Worlds

Aage Glue

April Zipes

Pink Brown

E. Pluribus Ewbanks

Tempus Fugit

Original Bug

Zita Ann Apathy

Olney Nicewonger

Oscar Asparagus

Aphrodite Chuckass

Otto Flotto

Jack Bienstock

Dallas Geese

Peculiar Smith

Ima June Bugg

Tony Fiasco

F. Peavey Heffelfinger

A. Toxin Worm

Wanton Bump

Pearl Ruby Diamond

Another Smith

Tufton V. Beamish

Buncha Love

Katz Meow

A. Morron served as commissioner of education for the Virgin Islands, Donald Duck was Maryland’s commissioner of motor vehicles, DeCoursy Fales taught history at Emerson College, and Paula St. John Lawrence Lawler Byrne Strong Yeats Stevenson Callaghan Hunt Milne Smith Thompson Shankley Bennett Paisley O’Sullivan was named for the entire Liverpool soccer team of 1962.

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